The Hollywood stars allegedly joined CEOs of private and public companies, real estate professionals and a fashion designer in paying up to $6 million
in bribes to ensure that their children were accepted to schools such as Harvard and Georgetown. Most of the parents paid $250,000 to $400,000 per
student.

This just chaps my hide!! For every one of these kids accepted, there is a kid out there, truly deserving that did not get accepted.
I'm really wondering about Ivy league schools and if they still hold their same prestige anymore. It seems they are just filled with scammy people,
and kids with parents that have more money than brains.

The diabolical ways they would orchestrate the whole thing is even more sickening. They would create fake charities, and then get "payment" from the
parents. The parents would then write off the money during tax time. When you look at all the people involved, coaches, admissions, even exam
administrators. Parents would pay for someone else to take the example in place of their dumb kids and the administrators would look the other way.
The other way they would get in is by using coaches to "recruit" these kids, in sports that they NEVER played. How about that.. Again, cheating a
real athlete out of acceptance.

Think it can't get worse, oh of course it does. They even claimed that some of the kids had learning disabilities when they didn't. There are some
kids that have truly struggled and now they have these fakers making everything that more difficult...sickening!!

The Hollywood stars allegedly joined CEOs of private and public companies, real estate professionals and a fashion designer in paying up to $6 million
in bribes to ensure that their children were accepted to schools such as Harvard and Georgetown. Most of the parents paid $250,000 to $400,000 per
student.

This just chaps my hide!! For every one of these kids accepted, there is a kid out there, truly deserving that did not get accepted.
I'm really wondering about Ivy league schools and if they still hold their same prestige anymore. It seems they are just filled with scammy people,
and kids with parents that have more money than brains.

The diabolical ways they would orchestrate the whole thing is even more sickening. They would create fake charities, and then get "payment" from the
parents. The parents would then write off the money during tax time. When you look at all the people involved, coaches, admissions, even exam
administrators. Parents would pay for someone else to take the example in place of their dumb kids and the administrators would look the other way.
The other way they would get in is by using coaches to "recruit" these kids, in sports that they NEVER played. How about that.. Again, cheating a
real athlete out of acceptance.

Think it can't get worse, oh of course it does. They even claimed that some of the kids had learning disabilities when they didn't. There are some
kids that have truly struggled and now they have these fakers making everything that more difficult...sickening!!

There’s so many scandals hitting the news, can anybody with a life even keep up?

Confirmation bias, I’ll go ahead and say it, but I see the whirlpool spinning.... this is how you drain the swamp. The closer we get to empty, the
faster it’s gonna spin... and probably churn out some gurgling noises as well.

I think I find it more insulting that academic failures who'd never otherwise get into college get in on athletic scholarships. Talk about shafting
the truly deserving ones who didn't get in with that loophole.

originally posted by: Nyiah
I think I find it more insulting that academic failures who'd never otherwise get into college get in on athletic scholarships. Talk about shafting
the truly deserving ones who didn't get in with that loophole.

If I had to weigh the scales, (and for the record I'm against affirmative action) I'd say I'd lean more toward
highly skilled athletes over kids that are just rich.

And unfortunately some people think money equals brains.
I know some people with money that have almost zero common sense and I know some people who don't have a lot of money but are smarter than average
without ever having gone to college.

originally posted by: Nyiah
I think I find it more insulting that academic failures who'd never otherwise get into college get in on athletic scholarships. Talk about shafting
the truly deserving ones who didn't get in with that loophole.

If I had to weigh the scales, (and for the record I'm against affirmative action) I'd say I'd lean more toward
highly skilled athletes over kids that are just rich.

Ultimately, both aren't worthy of admission by any means, BUT -- and this is the only "but" I'm presenting for pondering -- at least the rich ones are
paying for it. The athletic scholarship ones are getting a free ride. You prefer the free ride idiots over the scheming, but still paying ones?

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